Police Scotland five-year digital strategy approved
The Scottish Police Authority (SPA) has approved a five-year digital strategy for Police Scotland that seeks to shift the force from “doing digital” to “being…
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IT experts issue new warnings over Online Safety Bill plans to weaken end-to-end encryption
Plans by the government in the Online Safety Bill to require tech companies to scan encrypted messages will damage the UK’s reputation for data security,…
Threat actors exploiting unpatched Juniper Networks devices
Users of Juniper Networks SRX series firewalls and EX series switches are being warned to patch four different vulnerabilities affecting the Junos operating system (OS)…
It might be too soon to claim victory against Qakbot
By Ricardo Villadiego, Lumu Technologies Published: 01 Sep 2023 The recent operation against the Qakbot (“Qbot”) botnet by the US’ FBI, Justice Department and their…
The quantum threat: Implications for the Internet of Things
With an estimated 43 billion Internet of Things (IoT) devices expected to be in use globally in 2023, their security is growing in importance across…
Thousands of Klarna staff access ChatGPT Enterprise
Payments fintech Klarna is providing its employees with access to OpenAI’s enterprise version of ChatGPT in a bid to enable them to better support its…
Sandworm attacks Ukraine with Infamous Chisel malware
The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) and its partner agencies in the Anglophone Five Eyes collective have formally attributed a campaign of cyber attacks…
Ducktail social media marketing malware rears its head again
Cyber criminals targeting the accounts of social media users with an infostealer malware known as Ducktail are dramatically increasing their activity, and threat actors based…
Scottish government readies cloud platform to aid public sector take-up of AWS and Microsoft Azure
The Scottish Government Digital Directorate is launching its Cloud Platform Service (CPS), which aims to make it easier for the public sector to procure Amazon…
Home Office and MoD seeking new facial-recognition tech
The UK government’s Defence and Security Accelerator (Dasa) has launched a “market exploration” of facial-recognition technologies to identify mature capabilities that can be deployed by…
GenAI outranks cloud as business IT strategic priority
Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG), an IT analyst firm owned by Computer Weekly publisher TechTarget, has published research about generative AI (GenAI) enterprise use cases that…
MPs say UK at real risk of falling behind on AI regulation
The government should introduce artificial intelligence (AI)-specific legislation in the next session of Parliament or there is a danger the UK will be “left behind”…